Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...political motion, and produced most of the headlines. In the face of such furious activity, Republicans felt a certain uneasiness. In Vice President Richard Nixon, they knew, they had a strong and battle-tried candidate, but was the G.O.P. losing political advantages, marking time? The latest Gallup poll showed Nixon trailing Democratic Front Runner John Kennedy 47% to 53%-putting Kennedy a poll ahead of Nixon for the first time since Nixon's trip to Moscow last summer...
...extra pocket money. In Dellview, N.C., a census taker found that the town's population had decreased by three; the 1960 count: four. At Detroit's Statler Hilton Hotel, the census taker discovered that the reason that many a guest failed to answer up in the poll of transients was that 400 conventioneers in the hotel were deaf-mutes...
...public health services of Britain and The Netherlands) who now believe that the link between smoking and cancer is definite. Last week the World Health Organization identified cigarettes as a major cause of lung cancer. Many smokers themselves are convinced of the link; in a worldwide poll, 33% of them said they thought smoking was one cause of cancer ?though they kept right on smoking...
Persuasive Poll. The supporters of Humphrey see West Virginia as their big chance, because a large portion of the state lies within the Southern Bible Belt, with an electorate composed mainly of mountaineer Protestants likely to be wary of a Roman Catholic candidate. Catholic Kennedy minimizes religion as a political issue, and to prove his point, he produced a private poll last week, taken in West Virginia last January, which showed him ahead of Humphrey...
...Negro but a white. He was John Howard Griffin, 39, Dallas-born author (The Devil Rides Outside) on assignment for Sepia magazine, a Negro monthly (circ. 61,975) published in Fort Worth. His skin darkened by pills,* ultraviolet treatment and vegetable dye, his straight brown hair shaved to the poll, he was touring the Deep South to see how it felt to wear the black man's skin. In the current issue of Sepia, in the first of five installments. Griffin began telling what it was like...